PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
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Description
This is a convenience function for extracting a captured substring. The arguments are:
subject Subject that has been successfully matched
ovector Offset vector that pcre[16|32]_exec() used
stringcount Value returned by pcre[16|32]_exec()stringnumber Number of the required substring
stringptr Where to put the string pointer
The memory in which the substring is placed is obtained by calling pcre[16|32]_malloc(). The convenience
function pcre[16|32]_free_substring() can be used to free it when it is no longer needed. The yield of
the function is the length of the substring, PCRE_ERROR_NOMEMORY if sufficient memory could not be
obtained, or PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING if the string number is invalid.
There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the pcreapi page and a description of the POSIX
API in the pcreposix page.
PCRE 8.30 24 June 2012 PCRE_GET_SUBSTRING(3)
Name
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
Synopsis
#include<pcre.h>intpcre_get_substring(constchar*subject,int*ovector,intstringcount,intstringnumber,constchar**stringptr);intpcre16_get_substring(PCRE_SPTR16subject,int*ovector,intstringcount,intstringnumber,PCRE_SPTR16*stringptr);intpcre32_get_substring(PCRE_SPTR32subject,int*ovector,intstringcount,intstringnumber,PCRE_SPTR32*stringptr);
